Back in the 00s, some gas station owners in MI would drive down to NC with their minivans and buy 199 cartons of cigs at a time (200+ had to put information down), fill their cars up, and then pocket the tax difference back in MI in their stores. Cool grift, too bad they sent the money to Hezbollah

Spitballing about Book 3 of EoM with @unavaleable.bsky.social and the phrase "means tested post-scarcity" just flashed through my mind like this

Akira: Leave Me Alone Meme

ALT: Akira: Leave Me Alone Meme

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Only Englishman ever to bring it home.

Norah Woodsey@norahwoodsey.com · yesterday

Just saw The Odyssey. What a journey, eh? But Nolan really brought it home.

Must have been boring as hell to watch.

100 years ago news@100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 3h ago

Aug. 5, 1926: Harry Houdini seals himself into a coffin that’s then lowered to the bottom of the pool at the Hotel Shelton in New York. With no visible breathing apparatus, he remains underwater for 1 hour, 31 minutes, before signaling through a buzzer to be brought back to the surface. 1/2

It's 12 Noon on a Wednesday in Ohio. And you know what that means...

Missouri elections be like: Hitler (R) 79% - Christ (D) 21% And then the ballot initiative: Amend the Missouri constitution to require the state to own the means of production and work towards full communism? Yes 92% - No 8%

If Stevens wins, and it’s because a Utahraptor comes out of nowhere and eats El-Sayed, this place is going to get real ugly (against Utahraptor)

Dana Houle@danahoule.bsky.social · 2d ago

I kinda think El-Sayed will win, but it’s a total guess, I have no confidence that’s correct. But here’s a prediction I make with great confidence: If Stevens wins narrowly, & it’s in part because she dominated w Black voters, this place is going to get real ugly.

You should be able to click on PFPs and see the old ones so you aren't confused when a moot changes their's.

File another one into the "Money is necessary but not sufficient for electoral success" folder

Please god can some progressive learn to run TV ads

the funny thing about people in the western world being angry at sikhs for taking all the trucking jobs is that people in India are also angry with them for taking all the trucking jobs. It's not you. It's what we do. We are the Truck Guys.

Actually, I'll think you'll find the so-called "Homer" was actually the Earl of Oxford

From the AP: Brazilian capybaras enter chambers of local legislature

"what's gotten better in the last 40 years" 40 years ago the average person in the western world did not approve of interracial marriage or gay rights

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 18h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

Destination Moon. Hergé's first scifi story predates Sputnik and is some of his finest work. Isolation at a secret base, mystery, great art, much needed characterization of Calculus. And a real sense of dread at the risky venture. No recommending until I've read Part 2, but I *really* enjoyed this.

Kotu 💖💜💙@kingoftheu.bsky.social · 2d ago

Land of the Black Gold. Atmospheric with hijinks thrown in. Topical politics with Generic Arabs. Cold War drama and deus ex machina. A study in contrasts Herge refuses to explain why Haddock showed up.You can tell this was written in discrete chunks. Recommended, but less than the sum of its parts.

This is always a pretty easy tell for "does not actually understand Israel/Palestine outside of memes." I don't think anyone could look at the political currents of Israel and argue that the Mizrahi are somehow the people who will find common cause with the Arabs...

a perennial obsession of anti-semites is the attempt to find 'real Jews' who can be used to attack other Jews. It's the role that Neturei Karta plays for a chunk of the British left too. But picking Mizrahim given actually existing Israeli politics is a real know-nothing sign.

Alex Mann@alex-mann.bsky.social · 20h ago

This is always a pretty easy tell for "does not actually understand Israel/Palestine outside of memes." I don't think anyone could look at the political currents of Israel and argue that the Mizrahi are somehow the people who will find common cause with the Arabs...

“They show up here quite often, so we’ve gotten used to seeing them”  #Brazil #capybara #animals #government #weird #weirdnews #adorable #cute #lol apnews.com/article/braz...

Capybaras keep their chill while crashing Brazilian legislature

Capybaras have been making surprise visits to a Brazilian state legislature. These chill rodents strolled into the legislative building in Cuiaba, Mato Grosso, last week, catching lawmakers off guard.

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What I would give for a capybara to show up to anything I'm doing.

FunHouse Radio@funhouseradio.bsky.social · 19h ago

“They show up here quite often, so we’ve gotten used to seeing them”  #Brazil #capybara #animals #government #weird #weirdnews #adorable #cute #lol apnews.com/article/braz...

American Jews have every right to advocate for policies they want. We have every right to safety from antisemitic violence and discrimination, even those of us who have shitty opinions. What we don't have is the right to be free of disagreement with our emotional-support ethnostate.

Not sure if it gels with your other mechanics, but I think a thematic addition would be some way for characters to be “marked” with divine disfavor for certain acts

Call my job search the IRA trying to kill Thatcher because I keep telling myself "I only need to be lucky once" and then never getting it done.

This is a great call out in part because “disabled people suffer” is the thing RFK likes most about the present state of global health, and it’s the problem he’s trying hardest to worsen. I should have led with it. Meaningful oversight.

Datura Lacroye@daturalacroye.bsky.social · 24h ago

'I do feel like there's also disabled people suffer" on that list (obviously even more so if they are poor, women, or people of color) and very specifically for us disabled folks RFK wishes that we would hurry up and die.

To the extent there are problems with The System, they’re largely (1) poor people suffer, (2) women suffer, and (3) people of color suffer. These are all things RFK likes about The System. To give him credit for “shaking things up” is to out yourself as either a eugenicist or a dumbfuck. Or both.

PMC Vanguardist@tylerboschert.bsky.social · 2d ago

You actually don't have to do the "well, you know, I disagree with MAHA but they're right that there are real problems with The System" thing. That's a concession you absolutely do not have to make.

Doesn't this actually depend on the specifics of the goods in question? A cheap wallet on Amazon is $10. An Hermes wallet is around $4,000. If I replaced my cheap wallet literally every year for 80 years I would still have only spent a fraction of the higher quality one.